The Brutalist Report

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• With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: at least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic [20d]
• Ex-Apple team launches Acme Weather, a new take on weather forecasting [20d]
• Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports [21d]
• Uber wants to be a Swiss Army Knife for robotaxis [21d]
• Uber’s new autonomous vehicle division is about survival and opportunity [21d]
• Google’s Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability [21d]
• Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras [21d]
• OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push [21d]
• Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM [21d]
• Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to [21d]
• Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets [21d]
• Finnish quantum unicorn IQM set to go public [21d]
• VPN flaws allowed Chinese hackers to compromise dozens of Ivanti customers, says report [21d]
• 5 days left to lock in the lowest TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket rates [21d]
• How AI agents could destroy the economy [21d]
• Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude [21d]
• Wispr Flow launches an Android app for AI-powered dictation [21d]